Thursday, October 30, 2025

Science fiction idea

I have a science fiction idea, though I'm not sure how good a story it would make.

Imagine a future dominated by artificial beings and AI.  Some humans would want to live a less technological existence.  Others who live in the AI realm might choose to leave it and become physical.  With almost unlimited resources, they could create regions devoted to different time periods.  If you wanted to live in the 1980s, you could — or the 1950s.  You could even travel between different eras.

Some science fiction stories have already explored similar ideas. Westworld, for example, is about a futuristic amusement park devoted to the Old West.  I also remember a couple of other science fiction stories where people on a spaceship lived in domed artificial worlds, with each dome having a completely different environment.

This makes me wonder if the future might have more artificial environments, either virtual or physical.